Quotes from Pepa

Onstage, we're very dominant and aggressive. But we laugh and play a lot, too.

I wasn't from the streets, but I was in the streets. I had a good family, nice home - you know, I can't say I grew up with nothing... but I chose to hang in the streets.

We never said we were hard-core or that we didn't want our music crossing over or being popular.

I'm not ashamed to speak about anything. And what I'm telling you is real; it's from the heart.

We've never been political, and our fans like us that way. Music is supposed to be fun. But we do drop a positive message.

Peter Jennings came to us and said to make a PSA, 'Let's Talk About AIDS.' But I was naive about how the virus is contracted - until Magic Johnson came out. I'd stereotyped it, thinking it was a gay disease, a white man's disease.